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ALBERT MEDAL (in Bronze For Saving Life at Sea)

WOODING, Ernest Alfred, Warrant Elect , RCNVR, ML-116

Issued: 24-Mar-1945, Canada Gazette

"For displaying outstanding courage and forethought at the time of an explosion in a Fairmile in October 1943. The Fairmile, ML-1116, under construction at Orillia, Ontario, was in harbour when an explosion occurred, followed immediately by a fire, Wooding (a Petty Officer at the time), rushed on deck immediately (he was not onboard at the time of the explosion) and pulled two of the three men in the engineroom compartment to safety. Knowing that several hundred gallons of high octane gasoline were in the tanks of the boat, the action of this man showed complete disregard for his own safety. Wooding did much of the rescue work following this explosion and was certainly responsible for saving the lives of two men from the engineroom, at great personal risk."